It's all about attitude, Al says this morning at about 5:50 a.m. as I am grumbling....You are complaining about being tired tonight and it's only morning. How do you know how you will feel tonight, he says. I am tired now, how is that going to change? I ask. Am I going to lay down and take a nice 2 hour nap this afternoon to catch up? Like, right in the middle of my work day? I don't think so.
He's probably right, though. It is about attitude. A bad one. Mine. I HATE mornings. Especially ones that start before 6 a.m.! I have always been this way, a second shifter at heart. I only started getting up early because I have this quilt that I have been working on for *cough* 10+ years now. Wow, I can't believe it has really been that long. Anyway, I got it out yet again this year thinking, okay, maybe if I machine quilt it instead of hand quilting I can just get this sucker done!! Afterall, I decorated my bedroom to match this quilt and by golly I am going to see that quilt on my bed in that room before I change it or move! I am determined. Alas, I don't like how the machine quilting looks! UGH! Hand quilting is beautiful, but it takes forever. My mother in law, bless her, has tried to motivate me. She helps me quilt whenever I bring it over. (She quilts 3 times faster than I do, by the way). And she tells me that I am not giving up! I am finishing that quilt in 2008!!!
So....I get up before 6 to give myself and hour by myself to work on my quilt. Lately, my boys either wake up to be up with me or they wake me up at night so I am tired and have no desire to work on my quilt. That would be today. Carter started radomly waking up and talking to me around 2 and then Casey decided he needed me at 6:15 a.m. That translates into no quilting and a tired crabby momma. Maybe, since I am a second shifter at heart I should stay up later and work on it. My problem with this idea is I tend to fall asleep putting my kids to bed. Excuses, excuses, I know.
I am hoping that by writing about this it can help me be motivated again and not hate my mornings quite so much!
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- Stacey
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4 comments:
I'm not a morning person either...but lot's and lot's of coffee usually does the trick :) Good luck with your quilt, I better its beautiful!
HiHon!! You are your father's daughter!!!!!! Although, I'm starting to crave a few extra hours myself!!!!
I'm back!!!
What are you worried about 2008 is not even half over yet. I still haven't even made my 2008 calendars yet. Just reinvent your own year. Whoever said that the year needs to start in January and end in December????
Enjoy your quilting!
Meg
Nice that I can't proof read :) I meant "bet" its beautiful. HA!
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